Reproductive Imagination

When disregarding the copy as something identical to the original, similarities become the threshold linked to the categories of abstraction. In their turn, they allow us to both establish categories and simultaneously disrupt them with different measures of ambiguity, through choices of practical applications and intended erosions of pure analogies. They create spaces for contestment and reflection on socio-political and ecological references, departing from an image or a sound and the written word.

Reproduction as a term expands here through its liaison with imagination from a technological connotation of a copy, to forms of repetition, appropriation, translation, history and documentation. In several investigations, the migration movements that this expansion brings to the objects of similarity are traced and displayed. The human experience and the human gaze within forms of reproduction, confronts here with states of habitation and displacement. Thus revealing the socio-political, ecological and media-referential dimensions of the word-pair, while thematizing abstraction with and against its inherent weaknesses.